Hi, Beren Sanders wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 05/29/2011 06:43 PM, Beren Sanders wrote: >>> >>> Is there an easy standard way to make accented characters match searches >>> for >>> their normal counterparts? >>> >>> For example, I obtain "é" by typing "<CTRL>-k ' e" and I would like to set >>> it up so that searching for "Ajoute" will match both "Ajoute" and >>> "Ajouté". >> >> It sounds like you might want Vim's equivalence classes: >> >> /Ajout[[=e=]] >> >> which you can read about at >> >> :help /[[= >> >> Note the caveat about Latin1 vs. other encodings. >> >> -tim > > Thanks Tim. Do you (or someone else) know someway of making the > equivalence class [[=e=]] the default interpretation of an 'e' in the > search string? In other words, although it is great that [[=e=]] > matches all the versions of 'e', it involves typing seven characters > instead of just one. >
I don't know of any way to make equivalence classes the default interpretation, but you can always define mappings to expand a letter into its equivalence class, e.g.: cnoremap <expr> e getcmdtype() =~ '[?/]' ? '[[=e=]]' : 'e' If you really need an 'e' you have to press Ctrl-V before 'e' then. Regards, Jürgen -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Calvin) -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
